The Peculiars by Maureen Doyle McQuerry

Post date: Nov 30, 2015 2:57:27 PM

Lena Mattacascar has always known that there is something different about her. No one around her has extra finger joints and extremely long feet. Her mother has always told her that there is nothing different about her, yet her grandmother always says her father was a Goblin. He left when she was a little girl. When she turned eighteen, her mother gave her a package from Lena's father. Inside the package is the property title to a mine in the wilderness of Scree. Scree is a place full of criminals and Peculiars. Peculiars live there because they have unusual characteristics that make them unacceptable to society. Lena decides to search for her father and the mine. She wants answers to questions about who she really is. On the way she meets a young man Jimson Quiggley, an eccentric inventor Mr. Beasley, and a marshal Thomas Saltre, who complicate her plans.